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It Dlrertad tbo Attention of a Baffler a
Baitiwu Dent.
"I think that about as curious an. etpcri
eno as I erer wul,"snld a retired burglar
to a New York Sun reporter, "I hod io a
town Id western Pennsylvania. I had got
Into a fine, big home there without much
trouble, and bad found things when I got
Inilda about aa I expected to find them.
There was tome diver In the dining room,
and I nipped a few little things that Ioould
, vet into my overcoat pocket Handily, bnt I
had other things In mind, and I went on
Into the next room, which turned out to be
the library. As I threw tnj light around
this room I saw on a table In the centre a
' magazine open and lying face downward.
"I picked up this magazine and turned
my bullaeye on It and saw that it was open
at the beginning of a story. Thatitlecaoght
"WHAT DO TOU THISK Of IT?"
ay aye, and I stood then for a moment,
J with the magazine io one band and the
ballscye in the other, and read a few lines.
It seemed, to be a mightily interesting
story. Whoever bod been reading Hie
magaiine bad sat In a big leather chair,
which atlH remained alongside the table.
I sat down tn 'this big chair, stood the
bullseyoon the table at tny elbow, where
tta light would strike the pages, and began
to read and became so interested Unit I
forgot that I was there on business. I
"I don't know how long I bad been read
ingmaybe 20 minutes or so when I felt a
. hand on my right shoulder. I looked up
and saw standing alongside of me a tall
man in a dressing gown. He hud a lamp
in bis right hand. He had touched me with
nis leit, ana iniit nunu still remained on
, my shoulder. He looked down upon me
coolly. I confess that so fur as I was con
cerned I was surprised, and when he asked
me what I was doing thero I was at first
actually too flabbergasted to reply, but 1
finally told him I was reading a story in
that magazine. Ho asked me what story I
. was reading, and I told him. I thought I
saw juat the faintest flicker of a smile on
Ills face at that, but I couldn't be certain
about It.
"'What do you think of ltV says he.
"I bad come back to myself by this timo,
and I told him I thought be ought to be
ble to see what I thought of it himself;
that I was Interested in it enough to let
him como down and find me there reading
it, but that I wouldn't undertake to sny
what I thought about it absolutely until I
had flulshed reading it.
"'Well,' says the man, 'don't let me in
terrupt you. Go ahead and finish it.'
"Me was looking perfectly calm and cool,
Jnst aa be hod been when I first looked up
tblni. He set bis lamp down on the ta
ble by the bullseye, and pulled up a big
chair himself on tbo other side, and got as
other chair to put bin feet on. He had only
Uppers on, and I suppose be thought his
feet would be cold on the floor. He sat
down In the big chair, put bis feet upon
the other and lulled his dressing gown tip
around bis legs, making himself quite com
fortable. Then he picked up a book off tbe
table and went to reading 'while be waited
for me to finish the story. When I bud
finished It, the man taUl:
, " 'Well, what do you think of it now?'
"And I told blm-Htnd that's what I did
think, about it that 1 thought it was Im
mense. "The man laid down bis book and got tip
en bla feet again. He picked up bis lamp
ad stood there for a moment holding it
nd looking at me. He said uothing, but
it waa perfectly clear to me that he was
bout to politely bow ma out of the house.
. 1 laid down the magazine, aud picked up
my bullseye, aud moved toward the door
Just as I mtglit have done If I had been a
suest The tall man oueued the door and
calmly bowed me out. As I went down the
steps I beard him bolting tbe door after
me.
"You know i wondered who he could be,
bnt when 1 camo to find out I wondered
that I hadn't thought of lb myself before.
He was tbe man that wrote w story."
Beggars swarm so in Unit thai tbe only
waytoavcid being pestered, by them at to
put ont your baud aud anticipate them
With their own whiuing'GJve me some
thing," "Me pleuty poor man," "Me ve.-y
litr" family "
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MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.
f lafot of the Many floaffct by, tbe
; Pestlt of the Few.
AH crafts depend upon knowledge and
tcquired skill knowledge of the ma
terial to be handled, acquired skill in the
Handling of i the material. Pioneers of
mountaineering had first to learn what
moontuinn actually are like, tbe detail
of their structure, and the forcoa in ac
tion upon thtui. Rock stroctrrre, which
bus one meaning for a geologist, has
Ithers flbr a mountaineer. One kind of
fiountain masonry fonts ridges and
gullies, another forms ledges and preci
pice. One texture aud dip makes Btalr
lases that can be rushed, another makes
slabs tint can scarcely be adhered to.
One kind of substance is firm and trust
worthy, another is friable and treacher
ous to hand and foot. If there was so
mnchto.be learned about rocks, snow
and ice were nt finst far mitre unknown.
Tbe anatomy of glaciers had to be dis
covered, the secrets of crevasse forma
tion to 'be learned. There were the
varied phenomena inrplied tn the phrase,
"state of the enow," to be understood.
Both foot and cyo had to be trained to
recogniae by feel and glance what tho
"state of tho : snow" nt oiiy time might
be. Avalanches had to be investigated
avalanches of snow, ice and rock when
they might be expected to fall, where
they were to be looked for, lio,w far they
would go. Climbers bad to learn to
distinguish afar off between snow and
ice slopes. . Moreover, the tools it moun
taineering bad to bo invented. Many
were tried and discarded; a few "ware re
tained and' improved. The form of the
ax was slowly evolved and it uses
learned. Tbe way to employ the ropo
was a yet more difficult discovery. Even
now the proper form tor climbing irons
is only being arrived at.
Accidents, usually fata), were the
lessons whorefrom thejse facts weite de
rived. The great Mattorhorn accident
finally demonstrated how the Tope
should be used and proved that large
parties were a source of danger. The
Lyskamm accident allowed the puril of
cornicos. - Unroped climbers met their
death on many 'mountains. From al
most every accident something was
learned. The safety of the many has
been bought by tbe death of the few.
We can now. plunge into the world of
snow without undue peril. We know
its dangers and can gourd against them;
we know also when wo are safe nnd
where we can freely go. Out forerun
ners went aloft as neolithic navigators
put to sea badly equipped and into a
misunderstood region. We are now on
the footing of the modern sailor. Snow,
as such, baa no more terrors for u than
sea for them. Ill luck may overtake
us, and we may, fall, as they may be
drowned, but with good equipment and
experience, the climber and seafarer aro
about as eufo as the townsman At home.
EVirUiiuhtly Review.
How to Learn Mule.
Do not fail to take Advantage of the
library. Begin a course of good read
ins. Music is notorious for narrowing
one's mind, so resolve to countorbatinco
yor practice with librafy work aa veil.
As to j our practice, I would give you
tills maxim, "The esiienttul thing- in
practice is to see exactly what h to bo
done in all its details, aud then do it
again and agliin with the greatest cloui
neas, precision and energy
When yon take up a new piece, notice
tbe key, the harmonies, chords, scales,
fiuguring and general effects.- One of
tbe first neciwaariei is "concentration."
Develop self criticism. "The thing you
cannot do is tho very thing yoii should
tnukeyoursulf do." ,
la prsajtica begu where you left off
the day before. , Connect your day's
work. Apply all your knowledge. Do
not try to do uiuro than one tiling ut a
timo. Spend a good deal of time every
day thinking about what yon aro doiug
aud what you. will da. Edward D. Hula.
Tn Bnrabaaie Family.
The celebrated name of Praise-God
Cure bone wss borne )y member of the
Cromwell parliament called tnr-ther
after tho dissolution of the Long parlia
ment in 1C53. Tbe royalists called the
assembly "Bare bone's parliament." At
the time when Generis! Mtaik was in
London Barebone headed the mob who
presented a petition to pwliutueut
against tbe recall qf duu-lca II. Of Has
Barebone family there wire three broth
ers, each of whom had a. sentence for a
name Praise-God Bsrvbone, Clirist-came-into-the-world-toMiave
Barebone
and If-Cbrist-hadDot-dii;d-tliou-hadst-bcen-duuuu'd
Barebote. Kew York
Evening Smv
In Ashantae paiTiciili, am tird hand end
foot to stake driven id Ua gnmuri near a
large ant hllL Tjc anus are ihwi irrluiuii
bv sticks thrust into tbe eutmnce of their
dwellings, a lowed is set ata respectful dis
tance to vnt mass, ao4 toe prisoner is
left te be eatea up.
"Ton don't nt anythfaijt liar so many
tracks with cover on thorn as ya former
ly did," said a trawler, 'utl 4ave occa
sionally seen lately aomeUiina tliat I dou't
remember to hare atn at all yrant ago, and
that Is people carr) kg hatnlbafs protevtrd
WUU covers."
Tha min nf I'.,. 1 T f I.. nt
Brooklyn was written no a 4 foot idl of
foolaeati. natil tnmtl -r,1 ni.f,l in n
complicated manner. Ia a postserirH be
make aa apology let Usacumil jjalDX
se badlr bided.
consumers
experiment
KNEW WHERE TO FIND MONEY.
ranr Mm Bob a Chicago Gambling House
of 83,000.
Only a few weeks aijo a party of Chicago
poker players were held up at the table
and robbed of MOO, ami now a similar but
more Important exploit is reported. The
gambling house at 14 Quincy street was
Invaded, tne lour attendants nciu up ana
robbed of $5,000, and the thieves escoped
without leaving a clew. All visitors had
left for the night, and the cathlers and
dealers were figuring up the receipts at
the faro and roulette tables. - On each
table lay a considerable pile of motley.
Tbe big packages were just being put Into
tbe safe .by Sam Duhl. The porter stood
guard at the heavily barred doors. Sud
denly four men, enmo luto tbe passageway
at the foot of the stairs. One of them
pressed the electric button, and the porter
raised the slide and looked out. The
spokesman of the gang demanded admit
tance, but as the hour was late for pluy
the lookout , was suspicious. Then the
spokesman declared that he wanted to see
a man upstairs whose name he gave. With
out arguqmpt the porter unlocked the
door, and tbe four men filed up stairs to the
gumbllng room.
Tbe entrance of tbe four men did not at
Irst create excitement. They mode no at
tack until they bud "sized up" the room.
Then the last man wbocMrue In closed the
door and stood with his hack to it. Ills com
panions drew their revolvers and ordered
"hands up."
One man approached, jjsm at me Bare,
and covering him with a revolver pulled
tbe money out and stutTrd it Inio bis pock
ets. The same roan then scooped the coin
off the tables. Two of the other rr' Iwrs
were gradually forcing Dnhl and Lis com
panions back and iuto a side room, which
tbey locked. Then the robbers left by the
front door.
It took the employees 10 minutes to get
out of their temporary prison, and then
they gave tbo alarm, lint the thieves bad
a good start and got awuy safely.
London Woman Coming to Like Flats.
A very significant change has come
over Londoners of late years with regard
to a certain form of residence known as
a "fiat." Not many years ago the idoo
of living in a flat was so little appreciat
ed that apartments of that kind could
hardly be suid to exist at all in London.
A few unwieldy blocks of buildings
were built after the American fashion,
but so little did they suit the English
taste that for a long timo they remained
almost empty and tenantless, notwith
standing the fact that they then added
a very low rent to the other advantages
that they offered ,to their occupiers.
Now during the last throe or four years
the inhabitants of London seem to have
suddenly changed their minds and Hats
cannot be built quickly enough to ac
commodate the numbers who are look
ing for them.
Whole streets of lints, in some coses,
have been constructed, and have been
taken by eager tenants even before the
builders had vacated them. Indeed, un
inquirer for Huts the other day. who
was willing to pay a very fair rent for
very modest requirements, discovered
that, unless he could speedily make up
his mind to take the unfinished articlo.
he had no chance at all of inhabiting
the article when it was finished, so Very
much greater was the demand than the
supply. That tho supply is making gi
gantic strides to overtake the demand is
evident to uny one who has lately
watched the building' operations in our
streets, and the gradual rise of great
blocks of red brick bearing the prema
ture inscription, "Residential tiitts to be
let." On the whole, we do not think it
would be un exaggeration to say that,
whatever may have been the increase in
the number of homes in the metropolis
during the last tweuty-tive years, the
number of Hats iunst have increased
more than a hundredfold. London
Spectator.
alary Wrtlihigtoii.
Those who remembered Mary Washing
Ion's appearance in thelatei years of her
llfedeserilw her persona Ulnijof medium
sine and well proportioned, the dignity of
bearing, the erect carriage giving some
thing of Ktateliuewt to her presence, while
her features were regular ami strongly
marked, her hrow fine and her eyes a eleur
blue.
No authentic portrait of Mnry Washing
ton Is known; il is a family tradition thai
In the det met Ion of Wakefield by lire the
family portraits were lost, t'oloiul li. W
P. Custis was ciuestioned as to his know I
edge of the subject, anil replied by letter
to Colonel 1-ewis W. Washington tl.nl
"there was no picture preserved of the
mother of the chief," ami this has beiu ul
ways the belief of her descendants. Jim
K. B. Washington lu Ceuttiry
A Maw Way af Giving Moillclna.
A French doctor is credited with claim
Ing thai he has discovered a method of In
trcduting medicines iuto the body thruugu
the mucous membrane by msaus of elee
tricitj.
Quirk, but Seltlum.
Mrs. Watts UoodiiessI Aren't yon
afraid yu will min your digestion by
eating at so rapid a rate? You ought to
eat more slowly.
Hungry Higgins I may not eat slow,
mum, but I eat mighty seldom. Indian
apolis Journal
The greatest speed attained by sailing
ships, according to Mulhal, waa by the
Jamee Ilaines, 40 miles In 24 hours, aud
Flying Cloud, 411 The Ked Jacket ran
2280 miles io seven days, averaging 3J5 milrs
a day.
Tbe holding power of wire and cut nails
wn recent I y investigated at tbe Water
town arsenal, aud the cut nails we rv shown
to have a holding power about 7) per cent
giaalar tkaa tbe ether daas.
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By HESSYHAELAND.
As time went on and 1 saw tbe mo
ment drawing near and nearer when she
wonld have finished her dinner and b
ready to leave the restaurant my anxio
ty to speak to her waxed moro intense,
but not so my courage. I wondered
whether she appreciated tho situation as
I did and perceived my faint hearted
ness, and was laughing ut mo in her
sleeve. I stole a glance ut her beautiful
white face; it wsi inscrutable. Present
ly she roso from her chair, put on her
'..antleand moved off into the other room,
Into the street.
The chance was gone. It was too late)
now. (such a chaitco might never occur
again. I reviled myself with cursca not
loud but deep.
CHAPTER VII.
ABSENCE.
IFhUeand beautiful nnd still, lau Sophia
faulocna Eczardy, dead.
On Monday morning tho post brought
mo a letter. It was a letter that I had
been expecting for a good while, and,
other things equal, it ought to have
caused me the liveliest pleasure. It was
a letter from Mr. Archibald Winthrop,
a wealthy citizen of Boston, inviting me
to come and stay at bis house and paint
the portraits of his wife and his two un
married daughters. It ought to have
afforded me' the liveliest possible satis
faction, for it meant a good lot of money,
and it meant also, what was more im
portant, the. first serious step iu my ca
reer. Yet, as a matter of fact, it afforded
me no satisfaction whatever, but only
vexation and regret. Of course I could
not think of saying no to it; that would
bo to fly in the face of Providence. But
If I said yes to it I should have to leave
New York and remain away for a couple
of months at the shortest; and for rea
sons which the reader will divine I was
loth to leave Now York even for a seven
night. ;
However, like a true American tbe
issue lying between business on the one
hand and sentiment on the other I cast
the choice in favor of business, and two
days later found me aboard the after
noon express train bound for Boston.
Tho exterminator and 1 had had an af
fectionate parting, and I bad exacted
from him a promise that ho would write
to me and let ms know "how things
went on." I did not mention Miss Ec-
zurdy's uume to him, but I felt sure that
when he wrote to me bis letter would
contain news of her.
Of my sojourn in Boston, which lasted
on till after Now Year's, I will only say
two words it taught me the truth of
the adage about absence making tho
heart grow fonder. I thought so much
of Miss Eczardy; hor beautiful pale face
was so often visible before my imagi
nation; I so passionately regretted
the wasted opportunity I had had to
make her acquaintance; I so eagerly
looked forward to my return to New
York, when I might have another oppor
tunity, I hoped and bolioved, that by
and by I began to realize what seemed
very strange, thot I was not simply In
terested in liar, but that I was in love
with her. Yes, that I was in love, head
over ears In love with a young woman
between whom and myself never a word
had been exchanged and who, doubtloss,
was scarcely more than half conscious of
my existence.
Meanwhile, I waited anxiously for the
letter Muselle had promised to write me.
But days grew into weeks, and weeks
were lengthening into months.and no let
ter came. This made me very restive and
unhappy. I tried to comfort myself by
repeating the old commonplace that no
news is good news; but I discovered that
that sort of comfort is very cold comfort
indcsil. Finally' a few days before
Christmas I took tho pan in my own
hand and precipitated active operations
by writing to him. I covered three pages
nnd seven-eighths of a fourth page with
perfunctory tidings about myself and
inquiries about him; then I gave the re
maining eighth of the fourth page to the
genuine paint and purpose of my epistle.
"Do write to me at once nnd tell me ev
erything that has happened in St. Mark's
place since my departure. And, by the
by, how are the Eczardys? What news
from Bermuda of tho doctor's health?
And mademoiselle? Is she always the
same?" ,
I looked for an immediate answer from
the exterminator; but ten days passed
before his answer came. When in the
end it did couie but I will copy it be
low:
Data Ms. Eliot Your favor of 2Sd ultimo te
hand and contents noted. Glad to bear you get
along all right Yet, thank you, I am pretty
well aoa n.ia a very Duty season, wicn eom
mence now to slack up Uula. Tot reason I didn't
nits to you bit or I hidn't nothing to say, as
notainx tuul happened. But since your lntter was
received a great deal has happened. Dr. Eciaidy
is died down there tn Bermuda. 1 always said he
never could git well, and bu body como home on
the ship and been buried, and Muss Eciardy h
pack up and leave New York to go to Buwis. Ail
since 1 rucsive your letter. Taa steamer from
Bermuda was dus to arrive here on Saturday
morning last wick, and ihe expect a letter by it
srom bar fathor. when uutoad she got word he is
fled down tliera, and hi cadaver is on board tua
ship in a box. Sao went craiy, and had to man
age tho nolo Dullness. Wo buried him In ths earn
etery over on Long Uland, wile It snowed,
and then sho tola m she mad up her
mind to leave New York and go to Russia.
She pack up in a hurry and sail on tbe boat for
Havre Wednesday morning, bue tola me, now
my father Is dead I got nothing more to lie for.
so I go to Russia and oiler myself to serve the
revolution. I strike one blow in tue tame time
to avenue my father and to help tbe struggle of
Russian liberty, and then I die. Oood-by.
If you let me know twenty-four hours before
yon come back 1 hare the rooms cleaned up nice
and Ores to warm them. Otherwlu everything
Is the same as always Takegjo.1 core of your
self, and believa ma, with the highest esteem.
your devoted A. Mcsnu-e
I remember what followed us oue re
members the delirium of u icJ bed. 1
remember reaching Minelle'a hoUM auJ
hearing, viva voce, from bis lips a con
firmation of what he had written. Mis
Eczardy had gone to Russia, to St.
Petersburg. She had gone, she said, to
strike a blow for Russian liberty, to
avenge her father and to die. Then I re
member many days of great misery and
mental struggle and hesitation; then 1
remember that at last I took a resolution
which brought me something almost like
relief. 1 remember a long sea vorage
across a stormy wintry ocean; a long'
railway journey across France and Ger
many and through the forests and over
the snow of Russia. I rvapembey a
great strange city, where the people
poke an Incomprehensible language and
where it was night nearly all the twenty-
tour hour. 1 remember a big, bustling
hotel, where the people (poke French
and where the go was kept perpetually
burning. I remember walking the street
of that great dark city day after day for
it may have been a fortnight, it may
have been a mouth. 1 remember that
as I walked those streets I iieered anx
ioiioly into the face of every woman
whom I passed, hoping, hoping, hoping
that somewhere among thoin I might
meet her. But I rememlier that all my
boe was embittered by the thought that
no hot) could liavi been more unreason
able, noiio more forlorn. Yet I kept on
walking the streets, and I clung to my
boo, in defiance of reason, a a drown'
lug man clings to a straw.
At lust I remember that one day a I
stood iu the portico of the hotel I saw a
man go prancing by on bursc-back. Ho
was dressed in a very magnificent uul
form, nnd behind him rode twootheriueii,
also in uniform, but less magnificent,
manifestly his aides or attendants. J
remember tbut an Englishman who was
standing at my side turned to me and
asked, "Do you know who that tar
"No," said I. "Who is hoi"
"That is Oon. Ogaref."
"Gen. Ogaref? The name sounds fa
miliar, but I can t recall the couueo
tion in which I have heard it."
"Why, he is celebruted for having
sent a greator number of Politicals to the
gallows or to Siberia thun any other of
the czar s servitors.
"Ah, yes," I said; "it is in that connec
tion that I have heard his name.
Then it camo buck to mo, causing my
heart to leap and burn, that it was Gen,
Ogaref who hud condemned Dr. Eczardy
to his Siberian exile.
That same duv, perhaps an hour later.
I was walking upon one of the islands of
the Neva.
Presently 1 came upon a great surging,
excited crowd.
"What is the trouble? Why the
crowd?" I asked in French of a gentle-
mau at my elbow.
"They say that Gen. Ogaref has been
shot lie was riding out accompanied
by a couple of aideswhen, just above
there, where the' crowd is densest, a
young woman sprang toward him from
the footpath and fired a bullet straight
through his heart. Nihilist, of course."
"Ah! Tte young woman who was
she?"
"I have not heard her name. I do not
know if the police have learned it."
"But she has been arrested, I suppose?"
"Why, no. That's" just the point. It
appears that, having shot the general,
before she could be apprehended she
emptied two chambers of her revolver
into her own breast and fell down dead."
The police were by this time forcing
an alleyway through the crowd. By and
by two policemen marched through tbe
alleyway carrying a stretcher. . Upon
that stretcher, ghastly in his magnifi
cent uniform, lay Gen. 0,'aref, dead.
Two more policemen followed, bear
ing a second stretcher.
"It is she, it is she, tjie assassin!" mur
mured the crowd, and there was an
eager pressing forward to catch sight of
her.
Upon this second stretcher, white and
beautiful and still, lay Sophia Paulovna
Eczardy, dead.
For many weeks I tossed upon a pallet
in the English hospital beside myself in
a fever. Then I returned to reason, and
gradually to health. . But I wished that I
had died. The romance of my life was
over; tho tragedy of my life had been
played out. ;
THE END.
Namesakes.
A well known writer was telling
a friend about some of her numerous
godchildren who ore scattered all over
the county. They are of all ages and
nationalities, but the most remarkable
one is a little colored child In Washing
ton. '
When I went there one winter my
washerwoman told me she had named
her new baby for me, and asked if I
wouldn't come and see it. So, armed
with a large rattle as a propitiatory
offering, I visited tbe baby. What was
my surprise to hear the mother and all
the children speak of her as "Gene
vieve!" "Why," 1 said, "1 thought you told
me she was rwtuiod for me?"
"Yas'm, so she shorely, is."
"But my name is Harriet," I insisted,
"and you call your baby 'Genevieve.' "
"Laws, mis'," exclaimed the mother,
with a broad grin, t'Genevieve 'scribes
you so much better'n Harr'et does!"
Youth's Companion.
The Cost of Living.
While many Bkilled mechanics can
command from $1,200 to $1,500 a year,
working from seven to nine hours daily,
Jerks and accountants seldom reach that
Income, and many young professional
men, ministers and doctors, pass some of
their best years in attaining it. The as
sertion is all very well that a person can
not live on such a sum as $3 a week, for
instance; the cold fact remains that peo
ple do just that, and live well, too. Of
course a number associated can fare
better than two or three persons, for
every housewife knows the advantage of
relying upon the appetite or dietetic pe
culiarities of many individuals to strike
a balance in table accounts. Chicago
News. .- '
Aluminium aa an Alluy'wlth Iron.
One of tbe new applications of alumin
ium Is totberefininKof other metals by tbe
addition of small quantities of the first
named element, it has bus been ren
dered possible to obtain cast iron pieces of
vsry superior quality, uy tne audition or
aluminium tbe fluely divided masses of ox
trie of iron present in the fluid iron, which
unfavorably Influence the solidity of the
casting, are reduced; the very light alum
ina slag Is driven upward in the molten
metal and floats on the surface.
In view of tbe removal of the oxide of
iron, the casting will result of a more com
pact nature, from tbe fact that tbe carbon
contained in the iron has to opportunity,
by uniting with the oxygen of the oxide of
Iron, of forniiu' taibonio acid, veslculesof
tho i.'aof which are left behind ill the iron,
leaving cuvitiw. Copper castings are also
refined in this manner. Currier's Maga
zine. British Columbians for Independence.
The Hon. Wilfrid Laurier ha declared
for independence. Had he done so long
ago he would not huvs to count defeat
after defeat The only possible solution
of our political existence is nationhood,
and until it come we are merely para
sites, who are treated as such abject
creatures deserve to be. are no
bodies upon tbe map of tbe world.
Vancouver (B. C.) World.
eproy lu Spain.
Consternation exists in several Span
ish villages in consequence of the great
increase of leprosy. In the town of
Oata there are so many leper that a
separate hospital is to be built for then
There are eight families in Benidonn
that the other resident fear to associate
with even for tbe transaction of busi
ness. Every member of the eight fam
ilies U) a leper. i ankee Blade.
Mis faetry tlaar with a Kalfa.
The flour for pastry sboald be of the
whitest and finest quality. It should u
sailed with a broad knife, as the moutura
and warmth of the hand makes it heavy.
A NEW ENGLAND JIIEACLE.
A RAILROAD ENGINEER RELATES
HIS EXPERIENCE.
The Wonderful llorr Told by Fred C
Vase and His Molhar-ln-Law to Re
porter of the Boaloa Herald-Hoik Are
Haalurad Alter Tsars ot a (any.
From Ihe Boston Herald.
The vast health-Hiving results already
attributed by the newspaper iiirouifii
nut this eotintrv and Canada to Dr. Will
In ms " 1'lnk Pill lor Pale People" have
been recently supplemented by the case
of l wo continued Invalid in one house
hold in a New Knand town. The name
of these people are Fred C, Vose, hi
wife and his uiother-in-lau , Mrs. Oliver
C. Holt of Petarlioro, iiicuber of the
same household.
To the Herald reorter who was sent
to investigate hi remarkable euro Mr.
Vose said : " I am 87 year old, ami
have been railroading for the.Fitehburg
for fifteen years, ftince txiyhood I have
Wn troubled with a weak stomach.
For the past seven year I have suffered
terribly and constantly. My stomach
would not retain food; my head ached
constantly and was so dizzy I could
canrcly stand ; mv eves were blurred j I
hod a bad hesrtlmrn, and my breath
was offensive. I hail physicians, but
they failed to help me. My appetite
gave out, and four years ago I df veloped
palpitation of the heart, which seriously
all'ected my breathing. Had terrible
pains in my back, and had to make wa
ter many times a day. I finally devel
oped rheumatic signs, and couldn't sleep
nights. If I lay down, my heart would
go pit-a-pat at a great rate, and manv
nights I did not close my eye at all., I
was broken down in body and discour
aged in spirit, when some time in Feb
ruary last I got a couple of boxes of Pr.
Williams' Pink Pills. Before I had fin
ished the first box I noticed that the
palpitation of my heart, which had both
ered me so that I couldn't breathe at
times, began to improve. I saw that in
going to my home on the hill from the
depot, which was previously an awful
task, my heart did not beat so violently
and I hail more breathe when I reached
the house. After the second and third
boxes I grew better in every other re
spect. Mv stomach became stronger,
the gas belching was not so bad, my ap
petite and digestion improved, and my
sleep became nearly natural and
undisturbed. I have continued taking
the pills three times a day ever ejnee last
March, and to-dav I am feeling better
than at any time during the last eight
years. . I cam confidently and conscien
tiously say that they have, done me more
good, and their good effects are more per
manent, than any medicine I have ever
taken. My rheumatic pains in legs and
hands are all gone. The pain in the
small of mv back, which were so bad at
times that I couldn't stand up straight,
have nearly all vanished, and I find my
kidneys are well regulated byi them.
This ia an effect not claimed for the pills
in the circular, but in 'my case they
brought it about. I am feeling 100 per
cent better in every shape and manner."
The reporter next saw Mrs. Holt, who
said : " I am 67 years old, and for four,
teen vears past I nave had an intermit
tent lieart trouble. Three years ago I
had nervous prostration, by whirh my
lieart trouble was increased so badly that
I had to lie down most of the time. My
stomach also gave out, and I had con
tinual and Intense pain from the back of
my neck to the end of my backbone. In
fourteen weeks I spent $300 for doctor
bills and medicines, but my health con
tinued so miserable that I gave up doc
toring in despair. I began to take Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills last winter, and the
first Iki made me feel ever so much tet
ter. I have taken the pills since Feb
ruary, with the result of stopping en
tirely the pain in the spina and in the
region of the liver. My stomach is again
normal, and the palpitation of the heart
has troubled me but three (lines since I
commenced the pills."
An analysis of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
shows that they contain, in a condensed
form, all the elements necessary to' give
new life and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are an
unfailing specific for such diseases as lo
comotor ataxia, partial paralysK St. Vi
tus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheuma
tism nervous headache, the, after effect
of la grippe, palpitation of the heart,
pale and sallow complexions, all forms
of weakness either in male or female,
and all diseases resulting from vitiated
humors in the blood. Pink Pills ar&sold
by all dealers, or will lie sent postpaid
on receipt of price (50 cents a box, or
six boxes for $2.60 they are never sold
in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Sdieneetody,
N. Y., or Brockville, Ont.
Her Kspeetatlou.
Aunt Sophrouia Peters mada her
first journey by rail at the age of 65,
when she went to visit her niecA at
Boston. Up to that time she bad
never seen a railroad, aa the Peters
farnihoufeo waa 12 miles " from the
nearest station, and she "hadn't had
no call to travel." , ' :
Having been deposited with her
luggage on the wooden platform
wiiioh aiiri'ounded the little station.
she seated herself on a wooden bench.
carefully holding the ticket wnicn
had been given her, and proceeded to
wait developments. i
Presently the Boston train arrived,
paused a few seconds, took on a cou
ple of passengers and then steamed
away again.
"Why didn't you get on if you
want to goto Boston I" asked tbe sta
tion master, who came out of his
room to find her sitting In a dazed
condition on tbe bench when the
train had disappeared. t
"ft;tnn i" Bohrad A lint . Sonhrohia
feebly, "git on I Why, I .MJlged
tWa whnln ennsarn Went I" i -. '
WOKK FOB WORKERS.
Are you ready to work, ard do Ton want to
make money! Then wilte to B. F. Johujon 4
Co. of Klchmond, V.,and see if they cannot
help you.
A Maine man smoked a elgar won Iron) a slot
machine aud fell dead. Mau-iloter.
A POTT BR PRESS.
sue, S3x inside Hearers; tame uisirmu
tion; bed springs; will print nine-column
iiiliu or Bii-uuiuimi ;uarw; a biiciiuiu ai
wiuiifl ami, fnr Am.Litnr nMn- fnt- aaJa
aheap; guaranteed in order. Address
Portland, Or.
Dae Inamellne Stove Polish; no dost no smell.
Tat Osimxa for breakfast.
'August
Flower"
" I am Post Master here and keep
a Store. I hava kept August Flower
for sale for some time. I think it is
a splendid medicine." B. A. Bond,
P. M., Pavilion Centre, N. Y.
The stomach is the reservoir.
If it fails, everything fails. The
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
heart, tbe head, the blood, tbe nerves
all go wrong. If you feel wrong,
look to the stomach first Put that
right at once by using August
Flower. It assures a good appetite
tad a good digestion. '
TheAdmlralClgaretteeare
euperior to alt othere.
MUKCLR AMU VIUOR-A llirFKRKNCB
Many muscular men sunmmb to f thjues borne
with eastf by Mrwiii lar their Intcrlori In phys
ical trenttn. Muselt does not Imply Tlor. lu
lacl, II l not difficult nl proof that alhletvi do
not live as loni nor enjoy a ood health as Ihe
areraxe Individual who Is vlnorout-thut la Io
ay, wbone dlKMilun and sleep are unimpaired,
wIiom nervciartramiull, and who has no or
utilo teiideui'r lo dltean. Tticie retinites of
visor are conferred Uhi Ihdwliiherenlly weak,
no hM than upon tlioaa debilitated through
waiting illeitw.ljy ethorouKh,pulitenlcoiirae
ol Hnaiettur'iSlouitU'li lillteri, the lend Inn na
tional tonic, liulorned and reeomini'inled by
phyilrlana nl eminence. It will not endow you
with Ihe niunele ul a Cornell, but It will Inlnw
energy Into your nyitein sua renew the active
anil healthful perfnruiaiife of Ita liiuetloiia. It
averla and ouren aialarial, rheumatic and kidney
iMUiplnliKu, and ovurcomif dynpepnia, comilps
tlon, liver trouble and uervoiuuuns.
J"weler-How do you like your alarm "lock f
Cu'lonuT-Klrit rate. Jeweler-If ou didn't teem
pleawd wit i It al Ural. Cun'.omer-No; but 11 a
broken now.
TILL YOU II IKI-NDM.
Host of letters hare linen written, some
to the proprietor of Autoes' Posois
PuASTias, some to friends, telling of their
Ineitlmable value. Here Is one Irom the
Hon. Kdmund L. Pitts, the 'late President
of the New York State Senate:
"State or Nw Yoaa.) -
Bk.iats Ciiamhsr.V
Albany, Maroh 11, Ism)
"I have used Ali.cix -'i fosors Flas.
TKSf in my family for the past Hve years,
and can' truthfully say they are a valuable
remedy and client great cures. I would not
be without them. I have In several in
stances given some to friends suffering with
weak and lame hsnks, and they have ltiva
'Ishly aU'orried certain and speedy rellel.
They cannot be too highly commended."
UsAxnasTH's Pills will purify tbe blo.d
There Is much myllnca(on In London over
the expedition aguinat ihe Sufus, and the Indi
cations are that aomebody'a been lying on them.
Throat diseases commence with a cold,
cough or overtatiguliig the voice. These
symptoms (which, if neglected, often re
sult In a chronio trouble of the throat) are
allayed by the use of "flromi'r Bronchial
Trochts." '
Beyond his statlon-the man who wepl lo
leap In ihe train. '
IOO RKWARO-aiOO.
The reader ol this paper will be pleased lo
learn that there ia at least one dreaded disease
that si'l-iive has been able to cur In all lu
atagea, and that la catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
la tbe only poaltlva cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh, being a conntltutlonal die'
eaae, requires aeonatltutloual treatment. Haifa
Catarrh Cure li taken internally, acting directly
on Ihe blood ami m"CousaHrdioesof theayatem,
thereby destroying the foundation of tbe disease
and giving the patient strength by building up
the cnnalitutloD and aialatiug nature in doing
Ita work. The proprietors have so much fnlth
In Ita curative powers thai they offer One Hun
dred Dollars lor any eaae that It (alls to cur.
Send lor list of tesilmoniala. Addresa
F. J. CHK.nEY A CO., Toledo, 0.
gtf Sold by druggials; 76 centa.
WATER MOTOR.
On Tuerk Water Motor, new, tbat will
develop from 10 to 15-borse power; can be
had at a sacrifice by addressing
Palmes A Rev.
Portland, Or.
Tempt Hot
a Cough with a Weak Sys
tem,Consumptlon with Weak
Lungs, or Disease with Loss
of Flesh. Take .
Scott's
Emulsion
the Cream of Cod-llver Oil,
for any ailment resulting from
poor nourishment. Physicians,
the world over, endorse it.
Don't be deceived by Substitutes!
ptapacedby Suott t Boana, N. T. All Drul.u.
The Best I
fatemroof
Goat
In the
WORLD I
SLICKER
r h riaH HHANn sucker la warranted water-
Lruof, and wUl keep yoa dry In Hue bardeatetora. . Tan
sew POMMEL BUI tin la a perfect riding ooat audi
In.p.r. Ik entire aaddle. Beware of lmluuooa. Don 11
buy a mat If Ida " 'le& Brand" la not on It. nin.tra'
M(.-talune fW. A. J. TOWEB, Boaloa. Mm.
HAVE
YOU
GOT
PILES
iTOHlwa m9S known br molttnM
Ufc. pv.plraUono.u .nuuwlwhiai
when warm. ThU form na BLIND.
YIELD IT OIIC1 TO
DR. BO-SAN-KO'S PILE REMEDY,
whiob iota dirootlf on prt alTeettd,
absorb tumor, dlya ItohJ of , eff-ottDf
permAOontcmr. prloa &Oa Drutiiti
or .. Pr. BoMnko, FUUdalplua, Ptv
Pimples
AND .
Blotches
AKB BVWRNCa That tin Hood it
wrong, and that naturt is tndtav
oring to throw off thi impurities.
Nothing is so beneficial in assisting
naturt as Swift's Specific (S. S. S)
It is a simple vegetable compound. Is
harmless to the most delicate child, yet
it forces the poison to thi surface and
lUminaUs it from the blood.
I contracted a severe cats ol blood poison
that iinfittan gia for bualna at i foe four years. A
few bottle ofSwiit'i Specific (S. 5. k) cured
na. J. C. Jones, City Marshal,
Fuiioo, Arkansa a
Treatise on Blood and SUa Diseases mailed
free, Swire Snxtric Co. Atlanta, Ga.
CORD-WOOD.
Biaoc-cs Oas oa Oasoumi iMouta
Baal Power for ika Paraeae.
Palmar A ZJ, 8. T., Cat. aud Portland, Ob
It. P. IT. IT. No 632 fl. F. N. IT. No. I
6 ST. JACOBS O!
And all tn
DROP
Don't bny any bnt
k e are racine lout
waa.
SALARY
HOTIVJj povsa I
HERCULES GASOLINE
tsroiiTES
Fiimiiii.iuriiuiwciLuiPoni.or. amoko the Admiral Cigar
'ettee and te nappy.
Eating in Haste
At tines wLll leivinj aa ooiiatal. lu and
deputy inerirr brought on ii;i .itlu trouble,
althon.h 1 was natural
ly besltl.r. Kl.hl
mouth sgo I ci in-
infill. d tilllm llnDit I
garsapai Ilia. Il liM
lire I my d ? e I ! 0
trouble S' d e ms
buck lu mv s' hImmiI
ttltvii yi'nr'. 1 advlve'l
ntlieil to li'V't Hi oj
Hiiri;.r'l a and t1 ay
Mr, Mliiiuiauy. uuiv njo.ci oie' t-'.n
Hon rl i Iti-ct It lia. had upon tin lu. .My r 1 had
aiiflbrcd Irm i.vir. hia laehon, peiier 1 Ti
tration and li ol aM'ttlte. Blio tins lakin twd
Hood'ssi Cures
Lotties, and In r Ik a. 1 1 now (rro rnin imln a' d
ihe la r-iijiiy im excellent li.nltii a d nni'ui-d
trvngtb. ' a. Hhuxway, Mehvter, Miih
Hood' PHI a'Sl-t diii!Hlnn. :.o.
7-
iotaai
11.00 dot Bottle:
OnaoeatadoMi
Taa OalAT COOOH Cuii pro" cures
wbera all other full. Coughs, Cioi.. Bore
Throat, Hoarseneaa, Whooping Cough aud
haasured thooaanda, aud will OUR! TOO If
taken In timo. Bold or Druggists on a guar,
antes. For Lama Bauk or Cheat; use
IHILOH'I BELLADONNA PLA8I-R.2io.
LOH'SATARRH
rrTVDrurnv
P lia.aiaa.aer a
are you Catarrh? This remedy is irusrsn
I to cur you. ftiue,aOct. lujeoturfrus.
FOR SALE.
One celebrated Tuerk Water Motor; new;
will develop lu to 16-horte power. Water li the
bent audcbeapesl powvrto iu,niid the' 'Tuerk"
Is the beat and cheapest motor lu the market
Wll be sold at a ncrltlce. A.htre-a
PALMER & ItEV, Portland, Or.
RUPTURE
PERMANENTLY CURED oa
NO PAY. No pay UNTIL
cureii. no refer to 6,OIM
patients. No operation. No
DETENTION rsox BUSlSBaa.
Write or call lor olrcular and
bauk relerence. liiuiniliH 1m,
The 0. E. MILLER CO.,
Marqusra Buitoing,
.PORTLAND, OREUO-f
Ineefpera'sd Capital sad Surplus. 11 .f 00 000,
(UliSIIOERlllES, P1H19ES,
If I AiMATKI'll TIIEATHICll .
Srervthlng lu the above line. Coalumea, W igs,
Beards, Properties, Opers and Play Books, etc.,
(urulbhed at greatly reduced rate aud in supe
rior quality by the oldest, largest, best renowned
and therefore only reltablt TltnUrirM .Supply
fiTotue os Ihe Pacific Count. Correspondence so
licited. Goldstein A Co., 26, 28 and 30 O'Farrell
street, also tt Market itreet, San Francisco. We
supply all Theateri on lac Crxul, lo whom we re
spectfully refer.
UDC WiircifiW'C SooTHiNtt
IIIIIVJ. IIHIULUII tl OTHUp
FOR CHILDREN TEETHING
F Sr all llru-cliu. S& (JuUaW.tk
YOU
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WINCUBATOfcS '
BuMi uiHkeg. i.o w prices, hmy puy
mfnU. A ild reus . C Ueucli,
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Free by Mail
Oti receipt of ijst Dollar
t) WHOLE GARDEN,
Let u-i mail vou our Illustrated caiaiuauw winch
wlU tell you all about It. unstHeerttiMl Plaut
C- Itsherwood Hall Nursery Co.), 127-9 isausoine
Street, Man Fraacinco. delected heeds a specialty
Dr.
mm
ia
Evory'lj
Dark.
aiws n n ui TiKTf i:ir
aM I Mil fl n ThsOreat Curo
forCstsrrh, Dearn eta, Colds, SoreThroat,
mull A.
Q4 ATM Oft
yn..Y
DR. GUM'S
XKPROriD
LIVER
PILLS
WUagT W 4 KILO PHYSIC
ONE pill for a dose.
A owntnt of th bowtli eeh day 1 necMuir tot
tt tta. TtaeM puis supply what ihe cjitm Uou to
u it reffuUr. Thar our HMdtohe, brlsbtu ttat
Mtm and olr tb Complexion better than ooe-
utioa. The act mildly, neuter frtpe nor Bloke aa
oow pllle do. To ooDvinie yoa of inelr merit we
will niil aanples frea. or a full box for so oente. BolA
mrwlmt Boaaafco ML Co Philadelphia. I .
World Knocus the CURE U SUKS.
IT
IF YOI'R BreiNESS DOES NOT PAY.
Chickens are easily and successfully
raised by using the Petaluma In
cubators) snd Brooders. Our Il
lustrated caialottie ulla all about It.
tho Petaluma If too want atronf, Yieoroua chicks
tieanquarters tor Bone snd Clover L utters, Mars-
w rri i
. m . j u
v i mi ii . a i i
?2sower bns honSsJv
eecond ctiuuce. If Nv
you would at llrst sue- w)S
ceed, be sure aud start with VW
i FERRY'S 1
SEEDS.
llllW BVrry'a Heed Auniinl for 18M
louiitalns the sum and bulntoiicel
ol the latest Inrnilng knoivi-
V edge. Every plnnier should
vSSj. have It. Hent free,
wvI.M. Ferry 4 Cypr
WATER
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V
i ns uj?
em, Books, i aponuunf Tools, fonntalna, Flood's Roup Cure, Slorrls
Poultry Cure, Creoeosone the rreatenlcken-lloe killer andevery other
article required by poultry ralsera. See the machines in operation at
our exhibit with the Nerwalk Ostrich Farm, Midwinter Fair, hatching
oetrlrhes and all klnda of eggs. Catalogue free: If yon ant It, writs
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JoO-7i3-7o 766 llaiu sueet, Petaiunia, CaL
IVfl CVoruorO from start, for canvassers for clean,
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THE i FEOFLl'S
SHOULD tVt
COLDES .VEST BAKING POWDER
Into their slatform. To aj It is a messnre of
health, aieaswe and economy.
The Admiral Cigarettes are
the beat.